Aiden Shepard [ Abraham Van Helsing ] (arcere) wrote in bellumlogs,
For a few seconds, everything was in slow motion - his own backward stagger, the sight of Vlad lunging out of the coming mist, the monster-sharp teeth gleaming in the half-light of the world. He felt himself bring an arm up to try and protect himself, but part of him thought: no, that's probably not going to work. It seemed kind of stupid, because either way he was getting hurt. Unless he managed to pull down a stake over his own stomach in a nanosecond and block those teeth, or crack Vlad on the back of the skull, he was going to get hurt.
Then time sped up again and Vlad crashed into him and those teeth sunk into his shoulder and Aiden howled.
His arm hadn't been up high enough to get in the way, so it pressed against Vlad's throat instead. The shock of pain was enough to keep him down and jerking fruitlessly for a few seconds too long before he started hitting wildly at whatever was closest - skull, neck, face, eyes, go for the eyes! He tried to rake his nails over and into Vlad eyes even as the blood poured out of his shoulder and the icy heat of the agony lanced through every inch of his body.